James Rodgers, for the BBC: …I am with a team of herring fishermen. Their base is the Lenin collective farm, in the village of Tamitsa, about two hours by road from the northern Russian port city of Archangel. We head out onto the sea ice, travelling about five kilometres in sledges drawn by snowmobiles.…This has not been a good year. The day I travel with them, the haul is pitifully small. "Tears, not fish," remarks one of the fishermen, as a few herring flap at his feet. "We used to catch up to 10 tonnes of fish in a net like this," Andrei Yurchenkov, the collective farm's director said, as we watched the catch emerge from beneath the ice. "Now you can see for yourself - there's no fish at all. And this has already been going on for two weeks, right from the start of the season."
…"In higher latitude regions, such as Canada, Russia and Scandinavia, climate change may lead to net benefits for temperature increases of 2 or 3C, through higher agricultural yields, lower winter mortality, lower heating requirements, and a possible boost to tourism," concluded the British government's 2006 Stern review on the economics of climate change.
The report contained a warning, too. "But these regions will also experience the most rapid rates of warming, damaging infrastructure, human health, local livelihoods and biodiversity."…
The old bridge in Archangelsk, shot by Atorero (Alexander Kozlov), Wikimedia Commons, under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2
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